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IDEAS NETWORK PROGRAMS - SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2010 |
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6:00 AM
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On the Media

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On the Media casts an incisive eye on the marketplace of ideas.

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8:00 AM
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Says You!

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Stay tuned for the NPR word game, Says You!

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9:00 AM
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A Way With Words

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Take an entertaining romp through the English language, on A Way With Words.

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10:00 AM
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A Prairie Home Companion

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From ten-til-noon, on A Prairie Home Companion, it's the annual season opener, meatloaf supper, and street dance. With special guests, Texas country greats The Derailers, bandleader Rob Fisher and the White Bear Yacht Club Orchestra.

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12:00 PM
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To the Best of Our Knowledge

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After twelve-noon, To the Best of Our Knowledge tackles the big questions about the universe - from Stephen Hawking’s latest ideas about parallel universes and theories of everything, to the quantum physics of everyday life.

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1:00 PM
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To the Best of Our Knowledge

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After one, join To the Best of Our Knowledge, for a summery special filled with the sounds of the wild. Grab your butterfly net and your binoculars, to see the world around you in a whole new way.

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2:00 PM
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This American Life

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Stay tuned, after two, for more great stories from This American Life.

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3:00 PM
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On the Media

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On the Media casts an incisive eye on the marketplace of ideas.

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4:00 PM
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University of the Air

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From the 1940s to the 1970s, foreign films were in great demand in the United States and then their popularity dropped sharply. Why? Find out this afternoon, at four, on University of the Air.

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5:00 PM
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Simply Folk

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From five-until-eight, join Tom Martin-Erickson for music that's Simply Folk.

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8:00 PM
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Old Time Radio Drama - with Norman Gilliland

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Return to those thrilling days of yesteryear, tonight at eight, during Old-Time Radio Drama, when the Lone Ranger rides again in an adventure from 1945; followed by Fibber McGee shirking housework in an episode from 1939.

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9:00 PM
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Old Time Radio Drama - with Norman Gilliland

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The Man Called X takes on the Sicilian mafia by going to the circus, during tonight's nine o'clock hour of Old-Time Radio Drama; and Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce star in "The Eyes of Mr. Leyton," one of the New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, from 1945.

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10:00 PM
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Old Time Radio Drama - with Norman Gilliland

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X-Minus One brings you "Martian Death March", during tonight's ten o'clock hour of Old-Time Radio Drama; and a femme fatale proves inescapable in a 1947 story from The Clock, called "Deadlier Than the Male."

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11:00 PM
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BBC World Service

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World news and features are heard overnight seven days a week from the British Broadcasting Corporation.

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IDEAS NETWORK PROGRAMS - SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2010 |
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